Sterling Williams are working closely with an algorithmic trading firm based in London who are looking to grow their Operations function on a permanent basis who help provide liquidity in the Equity, FX, Fixed Income, Commodity & Options markets. This role will be based in the office 4 days per week; with 1 day from home.
Candidates will improve and develop new processes using a range of technical skills such as Go and SQL. Resolving a broad set of daily issues will mean regularly interacting with other teams and external counterparties across the market.
- Trade support, including daily reconciliations of cash, positions, and trading activity.
- Liaising with counterparties and exchanges on daily issues.
- Build and maintain automated processes.
- Work with the technology team to develop new tools and applications.
- Managing cash/collateral across multiple brokers and clearing houses.
- Production of various reports (including P&L, risk, treasury).
- Live risk monitoring and escalation.
- Regulatory reporting monitoring.
- Participating in the on-call rota of the Operations team.
- Onboarding new exchanges, counterparties, brokers, or products around the world as the business expands.
- Opportunities to gain exposure to various assets classes across the entire trade life cycle.
The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's or Master's degree (minimum 2:1) in Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science (STEM).
- Circa 3-10 years relevant industry experience in Operations covering several asset classes (ideally Equities or FX as a minimum, but also FI, Crypto, Commodities would be beneficial)
- Some programming experience (Python, Go) related to automation and data manipulation (SQL).
- Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to analyse and debug problems in a fast-paced environment.
- Disciplined self-starter with a high degree of motivation and rigour.